System features 5184 cores and 20.7 TBytes of shared memory, and
handles massive amounts of data for Big Data Analytics.

NEW ORLEANS — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 20, 2014 —
Numascale today announced the successful installation of a large shared
memory Numascale/Supermicro/AMD system at a customer datacenter facility
in North America. The system is the first part of a large cloud
computing facility for analytics and simulation of sensor data combined
with historical data.

The recently installed Numascale system consists of 108 Supermicro 1U
servers connected in a 3D torus with NumaConnect™. Each server has 48
cores in three AMD Opteron™ 6386 CPUs and 192 GBytes memory, providing a
single system image and 20.7 TBytes to all 5184 cores. The system was
designed to meet user demand for “very large memory” hardware solutions
running a standard single image Linux OS on commodity x86 based servers.

“Supermicro’s 1U 4-way servers (
AS-1042G-LTF)
with HyperTransport (HTX) connectivity provide users with flexible
computing resources, including capabilities for handling very large data
sets” said Tau Leng, Vice President of HPC at Supermicro.

“AMD is proud to have been selected to participate in this exciting
project,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, General Manager and Corporate Vice
President, Server Business Unit, AMD. “This collaboration with Numascale
and Supermicro brings together the right technologies to solve the
challenging problem of large shared memory implementation.”

Einar Rustad, CTO of Numascale, agrees. “Using low cost x86 hardware,
the single memory image cluster provides both shared memory — including
threads and OpenMP — and MPI programming options,” he said. NumaConnect™
operates on AMD Opteron™-based servers and can provide up to 256 TBytes
of system-wide shared memory using cache coherency logic. At any size
system administration is identical to that of a single server because
there are no separate node images to maintain and distribute.”

About Numascale

With offices in Europe, Asia, and the USA, Numascale’s groundbreaking
NumaConnect interconnect technology is the backbone for the most
scalable server computer systems with features that are only found in
more expensive high-end enterprise servers. NumaConnect includes full
support for virtualization of processing, memory, and I/O resources, and
can be used with standard operating systems.